In this study, stable carbon isotope ratios in the glucose samples were extracted from annual pine tree rings as bio-indicators of contemporary environmental changes in heavily urbanized areas. The sampling sites were located in close proximity to point source pollution emitters, such as a heat and power plant "Łaziska" and steelworks "Huta Katowice" in Silesia (Poland). The analysed samples co...

This article considers some of the sociologically significant changes to jūdō in its process of transformation from a Budō based martial art into a modern competitive spectator sport. Taking the period of time from 1946 until the Sydney Olympics, an examination is undertaken using Giddens’s notion of reflexive modernization in which key aspects of the original jūdō are disembedded or ‘lifted ou...

Legacy system modernization has gained increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners, mainly due to the need of maintaining legacy systems towards business needs and technology advances. In this way, a set of techniques, tools and terms related to software modernization have been proposed— although they have not been consolidated yet. This hinders the characterization of real mod...

1 Background Agriculture sector occupies the centre stage in shaping India’s socio-economic status. The economy of the second most populous country in the world is inextricably linked to the pulse of its agricultural success or failure. India has witnessed a significant increase in food grain production after green revolution, oilseeds production after yellow revolution, milk production after w...

Eugenics is the practice or advocacy of improving human species by selectively mating people with certain desirable hereditary traits. Eugenic movement gained importance in nation-building and modernization processes starting from late nineteenth century reached its’ greatest popularity first half twentieth century. This study, treating eugenic thought as one travelling ideas early centuries, e...

“transition to democracy” is one of the significant results of social movements. inefficient domination using hardware method by the control system led the west to encourage liberal democracy using software method in order to change non-democratic governments, referred to as “transition period” or velvet revolution- the approach of transition theory holds that change is also necessary in iran (...

Feminist scholarship regards the Western scientific revolution and twentieth-century agricultural modernization as patriarchal endeavors technoscientific regimes entangled in societal interests politics. In this article, I engage with these perspectives by focusing on women scientists working Brazil’s leading sciences organization, Embrapa. My analysis draws life history interviews three women,...

Software modernization remains a difficult, highly intellectual, labor-intensive, collaborative, and risky undertaking involving software engineers interacting in knowledge-centric processes. While many tools and several methodologies are available, current modernization projects lack adequate automated and systematic operational process support. This chapter provides an introduction to the top...

Most capitated programs have not generated innovative ways to organize care, but have instead concentrated on enrolling healthy beneficiaries and using crude controls on service use. Competition can lead to a number of problems for beneficiaries, including instability in the care they receive. Choice of plans will not offer many advantages for beneficiaries, particularly since it is important t...